Another landmark in the life of a PhD. student: on Feb 3, 2010, I finished my thesis manuscript and sent it to the Doctoral Committee. Title: "Automatic Sign Language Recognition Inspired by Human Sign Perception." Currently, the Committee is in the process of evaluating the manuscript. Depending on their comments, I may still have to do additional work and extend or improve the manuscript. However, the bulk of the work is finished, and in June of this year, I will defend my thesis and hopefully gain my PhD. The thesis is available via the TU Delft Repository.